May 1

Rowling, Lexicon, and Oz - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

Orson Scott Card lays out a nice piece that pretty much calls J.K. a fool. I encourage you to take a read, and say hi to Uncle Orson.  

Rowling, Lexicon, and Oz

Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is suing a small publisher because she claims their 10,000-copy edition of Harry Potter Lexicon, a book about Rowling’s hugely successful novel series, is just a “rearrangement” of her own material.

Rowling, Lexicon, and Oz - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

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May 1

Project Top Secret seeking Musicians

DESCRIPTION

The goal of this task is to allow the music talent pool among our members to put themselves forward and compose anthems for the Project based around current concepts and how they envision the project going forward from a musical perspective. While the project continues to evolve so I expect will the music and the themes we generate.

PURPOSE

The Purpose is simple, to first recognize and see our talent pool in terms of music creation at work and give examples of how our community can become a defining factor of the music we include in the game primarily for the moment aiming for a musical title score with future work to come going forward. And secondly to add music and even lyrics to the vision we are creating through the design process both to inspire and reflect how far we have come and how our grand vision can be illustrated in the audio arena.

Joining also leads for those interested in taking part in helping design a community created, designed, and produced MMO. There is many tasks also running from UI systems to Sound Effects, Race Achievements and many more.
For more information follow the link train. Project Top Secret

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Apr 28

N810 WiMax Priced $479ish

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Well here we go, via Buy.com the nokia n810 with WiMax.

FREE SHIPPING or get 2nd Day Express Shipping for $5.49!
List Price: $479.00

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N810 WIMAX ED  Buy.com

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Apr 26

Microsoft Live Mesh… More like Live Mess

So I get an invite to the Mesh Preview at 4/24 2:14pm:

Welcome to Live Mesh Tech Preview!

Live Mesh is a new offering under development from Microsoft that puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the information, devices, programs, and people you care about-available wherever you happen to be.

Get started using Live Mesh

Go to www.mesh.com and sign in with your Windows Live ID.

Only the site is down… I get another email at 4/24 5:43pm:

Hello Live Mesh Customer,

Some of you might have experience some issues signing up for Live Mesh when one of our servers was down between 10:30 am and 12:30pm. This issue is fixed and you should be able to access the Live Mesh site http://www.mesh.com and sign up!

Thank you for your patience,

Nadia Fortini

Live Mesh Team

As I post this the site is still down on 4/26 at 12:33am). I’ve got to hand it to you Microsoft.. you really know how to do things. Great preview.. the site doesn’t even fail over to a pretty page.

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Apr 21

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet $199.99 Free Ship ~ Techbargains.com

TechBargins has come though again.. this is an awesome deal on the n800. I swear by mine, and carry it with me just about everywhere. If you don’t mind being one version back you can’t go wring with this lovely. SKYPE works great, and there is even a Palm Emulator to get your PIM in there.

At anyrate hit techbargins.com i fyou are looking for something small with a lot of cool tools.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC (4 inch Touch Screen, WiFi) $199.99 Free Shipping, Apr. 21 12 PM 

Dell Home has the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC, featuring a 4.1″ touchscreen LCD, built-in webcam, FM tuner + media player functionality, and 802.11b/g wifi + bluetooth support for im/voip/web browsing, for a low $199.99 Free Shipping. Tax in most states.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC (4 inch Touch Screen, WiFi) $199.99 Free Shipping Deal - Best Price Cheap Sale Items Review Wholesale Sale Discount 0276316 - Techbargains.com

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Apr 11

Big update

Yeah, I know it has been more than a month but listen.. I’ve had a lot going on..

BadMoonsRising-Logo-Selected Well on 2Moons we launched the new Bad Moons Rising Build. There were a few kinks to work out, but it is all starting to come together.

To really kick off the launch we have contests going on all over the place. On our forums, at MMOSite and on MMORPG.

It’s free to play so I encourage you to download and get started today. A lot of new features have been added to make it easier for new players to jump in and really get started quickly.

I haven’t been to the poker room in a while. I was waiting for them to open the new room at the Orange Park Kennel Club. It is a little closer and I expect that will all the advertising it should be filled with new players. I will be on a Poker diet of fish and chips.

http://www.2moonsgame.com


scaled_Instinct_Fun_Menu_High_res Sprint and Samsung have teamed up to bring the Instinct out. I’ve always been a fan of Samsung. My current phone, past phone, my mp3 player, my camcorder… you get the idea. I love my T-mobile service, I’ve never had a problem with it and the service has always been great, but this phone has me looking Sprint’s way.. and with the new $99 unlimited everything it might be hard to resist. And since the evdo card in my laptop is with Sprint already, it would help consolidate my bills.

http://www.nowisgood.com/


I’ve got Bingo duty this weekend.. I’ll let you know if anything interesting happens.. 

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Apr 3

Link between online gaming and violence killed off

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People who play violent games online actually feel more relaxed and less angry after they have played.

Embargo: 00.01hrs Wednesday 2 April 2008

This is the finding of Miss Jane Barnett and her colleagues at Middlesex University. Their results will be presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference in Dublin today, Wednesday 2 April 2008.

The psychologists recruited 292 male and female online gamers, playing the game World of Warcraft. The players, aged between 12 and 83 years, were asked to complete a questionnaire on anger, aggression and personality and then played the game for two hours. After this time they were they were asked to complete the test again.

I have always thought that any perceived link between violence and video games was subjective at best. If it were true I’d be spending a lot of my time jumping on turtles and collecting mushrooms.

Gaming/violence research - Press Releases - www.developmag.com

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Mar 18

Historian: Reloaded

Category: WordPress

Something wasn’t quite right with my WordPress install. People would stop by, register and leave comments only to see them slip in to the void. So I’ve set up a and database and reloaded the whole thing.

Sorry if you were one of the few that lost your comments.. you will need to register again too..

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Mar 10

Bingo!

Saturday evening I had volunteered to help with the Bingo at the Private School where my kids attend. Fortunately it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. The building was divided in to two sections the healthy and the “I’m getting lung cancer or emphysema” crowd. I was lucky enough to get the non-smoking section.

bingo1 After 3 sentences of training I was left on my own. The room was full but not crowded and we had a few big winners. One lady pulled in $450 by  nights end. Enough to make me wonder if poker is the best way to go. The reality is that very few in my room won.

I had gone in to this thinking it was a social type thing, people chatting and  having a good time… and expected a more geriatric group. Not so. The crowd was fairly young and silent, in an eerie way. The monotone calling of the balls gave the whole thing a very 1984 vibe. The occasional “”BINGO!!”  would break the silence and the room as a whole would groan in unison as if Big Brother had once again called for the culling of the heard.

The game was played far different than when I was a kid. There were many patterns to a rounds, typically ending with a black out where the players hoped to fill in the whole card. IF I was coming in to this for the for time I know I would have missed many a Bingo due to not being familiar with the winner pattern. Luckily I caught on pretty quick. 

In the end it wasn’t horrifically unpleasant, save for the smoking. It was bad enough that we could smell it in the “Non-Smoking” room. I’m very surprised that they allow it at all.

Ah well, guess they will be “non-breathers” soon enough…

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Mar 7

It’s late…

Category: Thoughts

I’m tired to the point of having a headache. I’ve got one last call tonight, then blissful sleep.

I’ve had so many huge changes in such a short time, that I got sick. I don’t normally get sick, at least not like this. What normally puts others on a bed for days gives me the sniffles, but I’ve been having throat issues.

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